Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Make no mistake about it: Computers process numbers - not symbols. We measure our understanding (and control) by the extent to which we can arithmetize an activity.
Alan J. Perlis
The best writing is rewriting.
E. B. White
Inside every complex program is a simple program trying to get out.
Anonymous
Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection. But that usually will create another problem.
David Wheeler
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Alan J. Perlis
Like wine, the mastery of programming matures with time. But, unlike wine, it gets sweeter in the process.
Lawrence Mucheka
Bringing computers into the home won't change either one, but may revitalize the corner saloon.
Alan J. Perlis
Easy things should be easy and hard things should be possible.
Larry Wall
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
Robert X. Cringely
On the 7th day ... God began debugging.
Anonymous